Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 65
That was why the great-grandparents had been hung up in the passage leading to the servants' rooms.
Who acts: That, passage · What happens: be, hang up, lead · To what, where: great grandparents, passage
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, passage), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 why | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 why | cop |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 grandparents | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 grandparents | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 great | punct |
| 7 | grandparents | grandparent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hung | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 hung | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 hung | aux:pass |
| 10 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 why | advcl:relcl |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 hung | compound:prt |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 passage | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 passage | det |
| 14 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hung | obl |
| 15 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 passage | acl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 rooms | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 servants | det |
| 18 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 rooms | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 18 servants | case |
| 20 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 leading | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 why | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | That | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hang up | past · perfect · passive | the great grandparents | the passage | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in passage=Destination | ||||
| 3 | lead | gerund | the passage not said here | to the servants's rooms | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to room=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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